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The former governor of West Virginia was asked by host Joe Scarborough about Christie’s “I’d kill myself” comments and how hard it is to deal with Washington dysfunction coming from the position of power of an executive.

“I miss the good old days, I’ll tell you that. And the bottom line is this, I just never thought that I’d ever sign up for public service and then you see the agencies that you sign up for have self-inflicted pain on the people you take an oath to serve: the public,” Manchin said.

The West Virginian Democrat sad he’s been working with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and a bipartisan group of senators to reach a deal because he realized “we better start talking.”

“I just can’t believe this,” Manchin said. “It’s beyond my conception that this could even happen. So with that being said, it has happened, so we’ve reached out.”